Range Officers

[Daryll]

No, at our club all shooting is done under the control of an RCO, either an NRA qualified one, or a Club trained one (Trained "inhouse" by a qualified NRA instructor).

The RCO for the detail wears a Hi-Vis jacket, and reads the range orders out at the begining of each detail, and on his command firing commences and stops (normally after 15 minutes.)

I think our club has nearly 300 members, (although some of those are Airgun or Clays only) and maybe 15-20 RCO's, so theres always at least a couple on the range.

Edit: I should also mention that ours is an outdoor, ex military Barrack range, so once the cease fire is called by the RCO, he inspects all firearms on the firing point (breach flags are mandatory), and only once hes satisfied, the range is clear and people allowed to go forward to inspect and replace targets...